Several e-mails received during the last few days began with the sentence - “Christmas is round the corner”. Indeed it is - at this time, year after year! But over a 100 million girl babies world-wide never got a chance to turn that corner. Foeticides, infanticides, newborn neglect and abandonment deprived them of their lives. Over 80% of these babies were from China and India [1] . The British medical journal Lancet estimated that 10 million female babies were aborted in the last 2 decades in our country. It also reported that pre-natal sex selection causes the loss of 500,000 girls each year in India. While reports of violence and murder would make for uncomfortable reading, do these mass murders of girls over the last few decades make us shrink and squirm with horror and shame? It is only fitting that at Christmas time when we celebrate the birth of a child who grew to be our Savior, we take time to consider the fate of millions of girl babies and the loss to the world by their un